Photo by Jim C. Hines. Sofia Samatar is the author of the novels A Stranger in Olondria and The Winged Histories, the short story collection, Tender, and Monster Portraits, a collaboration with her brother, the artist Del Samatar. Her work has won several awards, including the World Fantasy Award. She teaches African literature, Arabic literature, and speculative fiction at James Madison University. · Siblings On A Strange Journey In 'Monster Portraits' Sofia Samatar teams up with her brother Del, a tattoo artist, to create a new take on the fantastic bestiary. The result is Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. Monster Portraits. By Del Samatar and Sofia Samatar. Relentlessly original and brilliantly hybrid, Monster Portraits investigates the concept of the monstrous through a mesmerizing combination of words and images. An uncanny and imaginative autobiography of otherness, it offers the fictional record of a writer in the realms of the fantastic shot through with the memories of a pair of Somali-American Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins.
Rose Metal Press, The new book Monster Portraits, published in a beautiful, slim volume by Rose Metal Press, consists of a collection of written vignettes by Sofia Samatar, which are based on series of drawings, the monster portraits of the title, by her brother Del www.doorway.rus might expect the pieces included in such a book to be sheer fantasy, similar to Jorge Luis Borges and. "Monster Portraits," by Del Samatar and Sofia Samatar. Rose Metal Press. February 84 pp. Paper, $ Adult. Thanks to Better World Books, S. Main St. in Goshen, for providing me with books to review. You can find or order all of the books I review at the store. has been a great year for literary monsters. A catalogue of monsters with accompanying illustrations, Monster Portraits has the incantatory power of a story heard in childhood. Like characters in a fairy tale, Sofia and Del Samatar are a brother-sister team. Del Samatar is a tattoo artist (it shows through in his fluid, minutely detailed illustrations).
Sofia Samatar's storytelling never fails to enchant and MONSTER PORTRAITS lava-rocks Del Samatar's stunningly detailed images with the breathless depth of her vision to peek between bushes, beyond diasporas, into mirrors, and across time through the everyday monstrous grandeur--coy and aggressive, best-kept secret and plain as the second nose on a rugged face--often missed by the naked eye. Monster Portraits, by Del Samatar and Sofia Samatar, explores the monster as a symbol of otherness. Through haunting, evocative language and fierce, enigmatic drawings, Monster Portraits examines with sympathy those who transcend boundaries and find themselves outsiders. “Like all monsters, we don’t belong, but our problem is time and not space. Monster Portraits. By Del Samatar and Sofia Samatar. Relentlessly original and brilliantly hybrid, Monster Portraits investigates the concept of the monstrous through a mesmerizing combination of words and images. An uncanny and imaginative autobiography of otherness, it offers the fictional record of a writer in the realms of the fantastic shot through with the memories of a pair of Somali-American children growing up in the s.
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